the Guns of Fort Phoenix
Sorry messe dup this is not a Wednesday walk Post ;)
Good morning all and have a great day
for today I am sharign some shots from a visit to Fort Phoenix in Fairhven a neighboring city to New Bedford
First a little of the parks history from here
Fort Phoenix is a former American Revolutionary War-era fort located at the entrance to the Fairhaven-New Bedford harbor, south of U.S. 6 in Fort Phoenix Park in Fairhaven, Massachusetts. The fort was originally built in 1775 without a name, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. Just off the fort, in Buzzards Bay, was the first naval engagement of the American Revolution, the Battle off Fairhaven on 14 May 1775.
On 5–6 September 1778, the fort was destroyed by the British when they raided the harbor. A force under Major Israel Fearing drove off the British, both at the fort and when they attempted an attack on the town the next day. The fort was then renamed Fort Fearing. In 1784 it was given the name "Fort Phoenix" after the mythical bird that rose from its own ashes
a shot I often taken but mostly when it is still dark and I need to take a long exposure and hence the flag looks blurry from blowinginthe wind
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next up a couple of the larger cannons
The cannons are Model 1819 24-pounders. Their trunnions are marked, “W.F.” on one side and “1828” on the opposite side, indicating they were cast at the West Point Foundry in Cold Spring, New York, in the year 1828. They were installed at the fort sometime before the Civil War along with three similar guns which were later transferred out of the fort near the end of the war
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and a shot of three of them
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there are some other cannons here ,the one to the left a smaller cannon at the fort which was captured by the Continental Marines during the raid on Nassau in the Bahamas in 1776
And in recent years, the two at the front ,
mounted on field artillery carriages have been installed at the fort. Donated to the Town of Fairhaven by the New Bedford Whaling Museum, the barrels of the guns are thought to date to the War of 1812, but they have no direct connection to Fort Phoenix
and for this shot I had waited till the sun had risen and hence the flag looks better and clearer
Sony A7iv 28mm F9 1/125 Sec ISO 1000
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and another shot to finish off the post
Sony A7iv 23mm F11 54 Sec ISO 100
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Sony A7iv 28mm F11 41 Sec ISO 100
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And that’s all folks
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